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Tue Dec 1, 2020, 06:14 AM Dec 2020

Tiny home village for homeless veterans comes to Pierce County

A tiny home village in the Puyallup Valley soon will provide housing to dozens of Washington’s homeless veterans.

Next spring, 35 veterans will move into brand new tiny homes on the 181-acre campus of the Washington Soldiers Home in Orting.

A 2019 count of the people experiencing homelessness in Pierce County found that at least 9 percent, or about 134 people, were veterans

The project is lead by Quixote Communities, a nonprofit with a similar community in Olympia and another in the works in Shelton.

Read more: https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article247461655.html
(Tacoma News Tribune)

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